Drry vs GoHighLevel
A warmer home for your community, without the cut.
GoHighLevel is a powerful CRM and marketing suite designed and priced for agencies that resell it to clients. Drry is for one coach: your community, courses, funnels, and email in one simple branded space, with a free plan and no learning curve measured in weeks.
Drry vs GoHighLevel, the full picture
| Drry | GoHighLevel | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. 100 members, 5 GB, unlimited courses, and the community feed. No card. | Free trial only, no free plan. |
| Fee on your member payments | 0%. You keep 100%, only Stripe's standard processing fee applies. | Depends on your setup: connect your own processor and there is typically no platform cut, but fees vary by plan and payment option. |
| Courses + community together | Both built in, in one branded space you own. | Membership features cover courses and community, but they sit inside an agency toolbox, not one warm member home. |
| Funnels + landing pages | Built in: compose landing pages from proven sections, capture leads with email boxes and embeddable forms, and see views, joins, and revenue per funnel. 1 free, unlimited on paid plans. | Yes, a powerful funnel and page builder, one tool among many in a large CRM suite. |
| Your own brand and domain | Your own address like grace.drry.com on free; you can connect your own domain plus white label (no Drry branding, the site is 100% yours) on paid plans. | Custom domains and full white label, because reselling the platform to clients is the business model. |
| Knowing who is showing up | See who is showing up, who is drifting away, which content people love, and how many finish each course. Included on Creator ($29/mo). | Deep CRM pipelines and campaign reporting, built for tracking leads across client accounts, not a simple view of which members are engaged. |
| Where pricing starts | Free, then $29/mo (Creator), $99/mo (Growth). | Agency-grade monthly pricing, no free plan. |
| Getting paid for 1:1s and packages | Send any client a one-time or installment link with an agreement they sign before they pay, built in, free on every plan, 0% platform fee. Most platforms make you bolt on a separate contract tool. | Invoices, payment links, and document signing all exist in the toolbox, but you assemble the pieces yourself across a steep learning curve. |
| Email your members | Built in on every plan: send a broadcast to your whole community or to an audience your forms captured (free covers 100 sends a month, unlimited on paid). Creator adds automations, journeys that welcome new signups, deliver a lead magnet, and win back quiet members on their own. On Growth, Spark drafts the whole email for you from your own courses and writes it in your voice. | Email, SMS, and workflow automation are all in and genuinely powerful, but sized for agencies running campaigns for clients, and nothing drafts the email from your own courses in your voice. |
Details reflect each platform's publicly stated model and can change. Check current terms before deciding.
Moving off GoHighLevel is easier than staying.
Keep your margin
Every member payment on GoHighLevel gives up a cut. On Drry that stays yours, only Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
One tool, not five
Courses, community, payments, and funnels in one place, your brand on all of it. No bolt-on page builders or separate apps.
You own the rails
Your own Stripe account and member list. Leaving never means starting over, because your customers were always yours.
Why creators pick Drry
- Keep 100% of member payments. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies, we take nothing on top.
- Payments run through your own Stripe account, so your customers and subscriptions belong to you, not the platform. No payment lock-in.
- Funnels built in: fast landing pages on your domain with views, joins, and revenue attributed per page. Standalone funnel tools charge $49 to $97 a month for less.
- A genuinely free tier: 100 members, 5 GB storage, unlimited courses, and the community feed, with no card required.
- Courses, a community feed, members, and payments in one branded space you own.
- Your own address like grace.drry.com out of the box, with custom domain and white label (no Drry branding, the site is 100% yours) on paid tiers.
- Member analytics on the $29 Creator plan: who is showing up, what is landing, and who is quietly drifting away. The kind of insight other platforms save for their priciest plans.
- Get paid for 1:1s and packages: send a client a one-time or installment link with an agreement they sign before paying. Built in, free on every plan, and no platform fee. Other platforms make you bolt on a separate contract tool, and most never reach 0%.
- Email your whole community, built in on every plan, even free (100 sends a month free, unlimited on paid), no add-on and no second tool to wire up. Creator adds email automations: welcome journeys, lead-magnet delivery, and win-backs that run on their own. And on Growth, Spark drafts your emails AND your funnel pages for you, pulling from your own courses and writing in your voice, so you start from a finished draft instead of a blank page. Tweak it and send.
Drry vs GoHighLevel, questions
Is Drry simpler than GoHighLevel?
Yes, by design. GoHighLevel is an agency suite with CRM pipelines, sub-accounts, and a steep learning curve. Drry is one coach's community, courses, funnels, and email in one place, and you can launch on the free plan in an afternoon.
Do I need a CRM to run a coaching community?
Usually not. If your business is a membership, what you need is to see who is showing up, who is drifting, and which content lands, and Drry includes that on the $29 Creator plan without pipeline management.
What do I give up moving from GoHighLevel to Drry?
Honestly: SMS, CRM pipelines, and agency sub-accounts. Drry does not try to be a client-management suite. What you get instead is your own community, courses, funnels, payments, and email in one branded space your members actually live in.
Does Drry take a cut of my payments?
No. Payments run through your own Stripe account and Drry takes 0% on every plan; only Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
Try Drry free. Bring your people.
Spin up your branded space in minutes, courses and community together, and keep 100% of what your members pay you.